he thinks is behind the uprisings in the middle east and north africa. today we're talking to f.o. in angola the author of several books among them gods of money wall street and the death of american century and he is also a political risk consultant so we're going to discuss several more several of the most burning out political and economic issues in the world today mr engel think you very much for joining us to be here to start off basically a never never before has the world faced so many economic and political problems all at the same time would you say that these conflicts which we're seeing today i term as if you are in the dollar situation and what's happening in northern africa and in the middle east do these conflicts trade off each other are they somehow related or not particularly what i see all these conflicts the decision to libya

the crisis with the dollar the crisis with the american economy and the conduct of american foreign policy in the last period. is all part of a breakdown of the entire super power structure that was built up after b.m. of the world war two and nobody in washington wants to admit just as nobody in britain a hundred years ago wanted to admit that the british empire was in terminal decline all of this is related to the attempt to keep this sole superpower not only intact but to spread its influence over the rest of the planet and that. not surprisingly much of the world is not too eager to see that so would you say that what's happening in the middle in the middle east or northern africa right now is basically an attempt on the behalf of the united states to keep its game up very much so the. plan was first announced by george w. bush when he was president just after the invasion of iraq in two thousand and

three at a g eight meeting and it was called the greater middle east project and that project they they published a map of what they had in mind was the control and the. democratization as they call it of the entire islamic world from afghanistan pakistan down through iran syria. the persian gulf area the oil producing states there and across north africa all the way to morocco. and the events the so-called arab spring had been planned years back and the instigators of those so-called spontaneous protests these twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth over the last months have all been. organized to a situation some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in in belgrade in serbia by old poor activists financed by the u.s. state department. this thing has state department and u.s.

intelligence all over it. and why why are they doing this well two things in my view one. there is vast wealth in the hands of the leading circles in the arab world vast wealth sovereign wealth funds of countries like kuwait and other countries but also just the resources and one of the agendas is to introduce as was done in the soviet union after nine hundred ninety one with the collapse of the soviet union the agenda of i.m.f. privatization free market economy and so forth so that western banks and financial agencies and corporations could come in and take the plunder the second agenda is militarily in places such as libya or south sudan now the so-called republic of south sudan to militarize those oil sources that are directly

strategic to china's future economic growth so this is all about controlling eurasia something zbigniew brzezinski talked about it back in one thousand nine hundred seven in his famous book the grand chess game. and controlling especially russia and china and any potential cohesion of the eurasian countries economically and politically but as a result of. the so-called arab spring what can we honestly say that middle east and. northern african countries which have gone through with changes have they really become more democratic gyptian tunisian friends of mine say that it's just the opposite the economy is in far worse shape libya had the highest living standard in all of africa before the bombing of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of could offer. the economy of egypt is in dire straits the military remains in control they were and the military high

command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the revolts kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events so will the instigators of the conflicts who will turn who seem to be you know the united states and maybe some of the european powers that you know look at libya will they be able to over store normality in these countries or is it not even in their interest i don't think they give a moment's thought to normality or normalization i think what their concern is especially the pentagon is military control the next step will be on this so-called transitional national council in libya is is to have that puppet government give nato permanent basing rights inside libya something they never had before under gadhafi sudan some of the things the defense unless they have nato forces in there the african is coordinating this the pentagon's africa command which is. interesting enough created just after china's two thousand and six africa diplomacy

were forty heads of african nations were invited to beijing and enormous deals were signed with the chinese companies for oil exploration to build hospitals give soft loans everything the i.m.f. didn't do in africa in the last thirty years the chinese begin doing and that had enormous results for china i know that you have a very interesting opinion on this who would you say pace towards that raised by the united states well you have to go back to the role in the last twenty or thirty years actually began in the eighty's with the role of the dollar as world reserve currency and china has an enormous trade surplus wal-mart is essentially an outpost of chinese manufacturing in america today so the three hundred billion plus surplus dollars that the central bank of china masses every year what do you do with that well there's few markets big enough to invest in a supposedly big could buy gold for their central bank reserves which they are

doing by the way but the only place they can invest it as they see it right now are until very recently is either in dollars or in the euro they've got something like three trillion dollars of u.s. dollar treasury bonds or bills as their reserves to date so in effect the u.s. would not be able to finance the deficits that they're running. to wage those wars in afghanistan or wage so small as in iraq or in libya unless the chinese were buying u.s. treasury bonds so ironically the chinese are financing wars directly directed against chinese national interest for energy security or would you say that the united states is going to has any chance of resurfacing from the crisis that it's finding itself in right now the only way as they see it they can they can survive and keep the dollars there instrument wall street i'm talking about is the gods of money and so i call it in my book. is to find new areas of loot so the arab spring

is directed against grabbing and privatizing the vast wealth of the arab oil world in the arab world generally just as the use of the i.m.f. in the former soviet union was consciously designed by wall street and by washington in order to plunder the vast resources of russia and the former soviet union and warsaw pact countries so if the dollar does not retain its superior status do you think there's any likelihood that the euro will retain it or inherit it rather well one reason that there's this difficulty with greece and these so-called euro zone weaker economies is that this is part of a kind of a covert financial warfare between the dollar and the euro was a reserve currency it started when the chinese started complaining publicly about the. flawed economic policy of of washington running up deficits and endangering the value of chinese treasury bonds so now. just when that became public.

suddenly there was a greek crisis and the greek crisis was put in place in two thousand and two before greece under the euro zone by none other than goldman sachs the most powerful bank in america arguably today politically well connected in washington so. it's very clear if you follow the money trail that that the. crisis was programmed to be detonated at command by wall street and the us treasury as well as the federal reserve in order to defend the reserve currency role of the us dollar but i don't see the european economies endangered as the us because one great difference europe still produces things europe still has a real industry which i believe that from going back till at the beginning of our interview we believe that there is some european countries there's benefit from the situation and having say in libya right now like france well i was just going to say sarkozy had

a meeting in march when the whole drama in libya kicked off he invited leaders of the so-called transitional national council to paris and made them whispered sweet nothings in their ears about having control of the oil resources of eastern libya and poured money weapons the cia and the french intelligence have been pouring arms into these insurgent groups inside libya this is an armed insurrection financed by nato countries and libya it's an old peaceful twitter revolution of a bunch of kids who have a dream of american style democracy of something this is raw power grab by the french but what do you predict or in european what do you think will happen in the be a now i mean the nato troops will have to pull out at some point and then what will the. i imagine an iraq like scenario or afghanistan what do you have in afghanistan and you have seventeen permanent u.s. military bases in afghanistan most of them air bases who are not bombing the

taliban and they're preparing for a coming war and perhaps ten years with china or maybe with russia they've got a military bastion in the heart of central asia that's something that they never had to in the cold war. so i think libya is destined for a similar treatment what role do you think process it playing in the in the events which are in reality right now i think russia given the history going back more than more than the cold war europe. russia can play a very stabilizing role as a as a counter force to this highly dangerous strategy of the greater middle east project of nato in the us in that region russia can play a very important role blocking. someone toward events from the side of the un security council in syria i don't think china would agree as they did with libya case to the un action sanction action in syria but in more ways than that russia can play a very constructive role i think in the region to try to counter this destabilization

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protesters and security forces have claimed some three thousand lives since the unrest started in march. washington stops funding of unesco hours after the cultural agency grants palestinians full membership by a majority vote the move seen by many as a sign of growing international support per palestine's pending statehood. mainstream media resurrecting a russian spy ring case code named ghost stories as the f.b.i. releasing footage featuring sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. last year including. time again for sports you know neil joining me and the rugby cup champions on the lookout for a new coach is exactly right graham henry said enough is enough i'm leaving new zealand he's sixty five we'll give him a day in the sun but we but he's leaving on top he is the world cup champion coach he's gone so as you say you see looking for a new mom or not coming up in

a sec. have you with us we've got plenty ahead including this hour. continental quest. home tonight knowing victory will propel them top of champions league group. capital again. this season with kontinental hockey winning four games at the expense of. take your pick all the strikes that made the difference in the penultimate week. and it is. we begin with football where is the need some petersburg are preparing to kick off a game week four in the champions league early clutch seeing charges entertain

ukrainian shock are the russian champions have been riding high in the competition to date already with three more points up the same stage of the previous european cup adventure two years ago victory over porto up the end of september highlight. the russian international striker ruled with an ankle injury shocked. when. fixture against alexandria three results. within a point of leaders to. action gets underway at eight hundred forty five central european. porto wm to get back to winning ways when they travel to surprise table toppers cyprus. barcelona meanwhile will have supremacy on their minds when they take on a pleasant respectively the european. things with seven.

groups. against the blues. informed by. place versus second seated marcy is the pick of the group. game where it's a good time to be a new castle from a present sitting pretty in third place in the premier league following victory away to stoke and monday's only game. helping himself to a. stadium with jonathan walters netting the home side's goal. joint third which is heading into the game but second seeded manchester united by a solid three points. are also the only side so far this.

hopes of a first every case and prove the army men beating one of the league's eastern power . here in the russian capital constantine to top off reports. this guy had won just two matches out of eight against me when you go ask in the cage shell and only once on home ice this time the helm side produced an electric start in the search for a third wind discuss striking first as which is off to women put the red and blues ahead just a minute seem a minute and a half later to discuss top scorer sergei shock of double delete forcing men told to swap goaltenders discouraging start for the visitors and the same confused and the house left for the intermission really comfortable to nothing lead up to some probable had dry treatment from still makers head coach father cannot he can't quit trying to get back into the game but it was sisko who increase their lead with

a power play goal nicolas person was the first in that amount of to show a spiral full slapshot to make it a three goal game with four minutes to go in the second however i mean managed to pull one back early in the decisive period as i send them back home on a counter-attack to make it three one but four minutes later to sky regain their three goal lead balloon in pasta beatrice love muravchik zero and the twenty four year old defender made it four one four minutes before the final buzzer melts and then releasing the revived intrigue cutting the deficit to two goals in a power play and the visitors put everything on the line in pulling all of for next to clear but failed to capitalise on their chances as a serious cause a wristwatch daniel was confident between the pipes short to the final score you happen to games in are all for half past the hour so when we got the two zero lead we knew what happened the last game they tied it so reading what are happening again and. we battled hard i mean

a second period we really got lucky will be there because they really pressure us and we scored a third goal in powerplay so i think that was the point for the game we came our hard. wired to where we are and were successful with. a couple shots to start there. nice to get to first of all and second all to scott climbed one line up and now sits in the western conference well last season's going cup semifinalists made a little continue their relatively poor before lunch and stay fief in the complaint but out of forty. graham henry has stood down as head coach of the new zealand rugby team the sixty five year old leaving on a high after stealing his country's second world cup triumph last month against france he had headed the all blacks for a full seven seasons i'm stepping down from. had enough. of been involved in

a hundred three test matches he will brag about one hundred forty in total it's been a privilege to be involved with the old briggs. a real privilege enormous privilege i'm very proud of what i have done i will last night these have certainly added to the legacy of all great rugby. and that's very important to this to a. great way to end his tenure now it is not certain that russia's first ever formula one driver fatality petroff will be with lotus renaud next season the driver said to be replaced by roman for the early circuits sessions this season's final race in brazil not great news for the wii board rocket g.p. to champion john will also get to ride instead of petrol stablemate and produce senna at the penultimate abu dhabi event the team of struggle this year with petrol place finish on the opening day of the season in melbourne far and away their best result twenty seven will patrol finished eleventh this past weekend the indian

grand prix without criticism from the stable for a quote on the inspired performance. there's a three way tie in the n.f.l. is a.f.c. west after kansas city beat their divisional rival sunday go on monday night the fallen chargers on the victorious chiefs joined by oakland raiders atop that group the chiefs marcus cell firing at the passer jonathan baldwin for the game's first big score fellow rookie marcus gilchrist staying tight on him but unable to stop the baldwin touched on the chargers stayed in the game though courtesy of nick novak's feel good once the game here was time to twenty apiece when a costly fumble by some diego quarterback philip rivers late in the fourth set up ryan souped up for a field goal in overtime the thirty yard or sitting straight down the middle that meant the chiefs would take a twenty three twenty when number for four. finally not a single game ended goal is this week in the russian premier league as the sides

prepared a state into eight for their second half of the longest ever domestic season so let's get a recap of all twenty two strikes that fund the back of the net during the penultimate round it is called school.

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three. three. three. three stooges. video for your media project. a last ditch effort to end bloodshed in syria the arab league demanding president assad talk to the opposition and withdraw his tanks from the streets. costly

recognition washington halts funding of unesco hours after the u.n. cultural body grants palestinians full membership by a majority vote. and hollow mainstream media resurrects in a case code named ghost stories that sees the release of footage featuring russian sleeper agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. one pm in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story of the world waits for syria's response to an arab league demand to pull the tanks off the streets and begin dialogue with the opposition earlier syrian president assad said he would only talk with parties that have no links to foreign powers or what he called terrorism some three thousand.